Albert Einstein Facts That You Did Not Know

Glimpse into Albert Einstein Facts which were never revealed before —

He never failed at mathematics. This is a popular “fact” promoted on the internet, maybe in an attempt to relate to a genius. However, it is simply not true. Overall, Einstein was an average student, but math was one area where he excelled, unsurprisingly.

As a child, he was a very slow learner and a soft speaker.

He was a great musician. If the whole “genius” thing did not work out, Einstein could have become a violinist. His mother played piano so he had the love of music instilled in him—via violin lessons—at the young age of five.

His great breakthroughs came from visualization of experiments performed in his head rather than the lab.

Einstein had an illegitimate daughter, who was born in 1902.

He could have been the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.

Yoda, from star wars was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.

He had no car of his own, also he never learned how to drive .

He loved to sail. Ever since university, Einstein sailed as a hobby. He never particularly made a good sailor. In fact, he did not even know how to swim.

He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. This alone isn’t particularly surprising. What is surprising is the fact that he did not receive it for the general or special theory of relativity, but rather for the photoelectric effect.

His Nobel Prize Money went to his ex-wife as a Divorce Settlement.

He really did not like socks, and usually did not wear them. In fact, in a letter to Elsa, he bragged about getting away “without wearing socks” while at Oxford.

He failed his university examinations and had to reapply a year later.

He had bad memory. He couldn’t remember names, dates or phone numbers.

His brain was stolen. After Einstein died, the pathologist who did his autopsy took his brain without permission. He eventually got the permission necessary from Einstein’s son, but he was fired from Princeton when he refused to return the brain over. He kept it for over forty years before finally returning it in 1998.

Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl published the equation E=MC2 a year before Einstein did.

His eyes still remain in a safe box at NYC.

Hours before his death, he was still attempting to prove his Theory of Everything.

He denounced segregation, calling it a “Disease of white people” and worked against racism in America.